Strange Aircraft?

From: Mike Smith <mickey@anix340.dev.anix.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:50:41 +0000 (GMT)
Fwd Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:53:06 -0500
Subject: Strange Aircraft?
Hi All,
Been looking up for a long time now and never seen nothing [Don't
you just love those double negatives]. I live and work in an area
where air traffic is quite common. Were on a main trans atlantic
route and quite close to British Aerospace. So we get a lot of
commercial and military type traffic. Fighters occaisionally buzz
my office at just above the roof tops. [At least that's what it
seems like when they go over]
So against this background I have to report that I saw something
strange last night. Don't know what kind of aircraft it was and I
was wondering if someone could help me.
It was a large Black/Dark triangular/delta shaped aircraft. It
appeared to be taking the commercial transatlantic route. It had
a very large and brilliant light on the front. It looked like it
glowing golfball being pushed along in front of the dark
triangular body of the aircraft.
The object left a cone-trail but this was choppy. Not doughnuts
on a rope but start/stop/start/stop. There were other contrails
in evidence. These were normal, though I have no way of telling
if they were at the same altitude and therefore subject to the
same conditions as those belonging to the object.
It wasn't Concorde. I've seen this quite often because it was
built here and it's a frequent transatlantic visitor.
So there we go something large and delta shaped, with a very
bright nose mounted light, flying in a commercial air corridor.
Sadly no fantastic areobatics, no tremendous speeds and no black
helicopters. Just something that looked strange and out of place.
Any Ideas?
Regards,
Mike
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Mike Smith Anix Computers Ltd
"Death isn't the Handicap it used to be" Third Technician, Dave Lister
Jupiter Mining Corporation
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